Harry Litman: We just dodged constitutional crisis with the census

The executive order that President Donald Trump issued on Thursday was a face-saving attempt to repackage a political loss. Much more important, however, it reflects the administration's stepping back from the brink of a truly historic rejection of the principle that the courts decide the law under our constitutional scheme.The administration for several days had suggested it was busy concocting a workaround to the Supreme Court's determination in late June that the rationale for placing a citiz